chuck hagel, tapped by president obama to the secretary of defense, is a former army sergeant. if confirmed, will become the first vietnam war veteran to head the pentagon. obama's secretary of state nominee, john kerry, became one of the most prominent veterans to oppose the vietnam war after his return. testifying before the senate in 1971. he discussed the atrocities under it in winter soldier investigation, where over 150 veterans testified to war crimes committed in southeast asia. >> they told the stories at times that they personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable televisions to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of ghengis khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of south vietnam, in addition to the normal ravage of war in the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country. >> that is john kerry testifying in 1971 after he returned from v